SOAR Contracts in the North West

Security Orchestration, Automation and Response (SOAR)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring SOAR skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited SOAR over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 125 141
Rank change year-on-year +10 +16 -
Contract jobs citing SOAR 10 3 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.46% 0.12% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.14% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 11
10th Percentile £315 - £363
25th Percentile £575 £550 £518
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £593
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +1.18% -
75th Percentile £751 £650 £593
90th Percentile £775 - -
England median daily rate £650 £579 £593
% change year-on-year +12.36% -2.49% -1.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

SOAR falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,930 2,120 2,716
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.93% 84.70% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,249 1,304 1,865
10th Percentile £270 £300 £304
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +0.50%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £593
90th Percentile £671 £675 £675
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 206 166
10th Percentile £13.50 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £16.06 £18.60
Median hourly rate £28.75 £29.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -3.33% +26.58%
75th Percentile £56.88 £50.44 £45.88
90th Percentile £74.75 £70.33 £58.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -5.12% +63.46%

SOAR
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing SOAR as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for SOAR in the North West

SOAR
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing SOAR in the North West.

Daily rate trend for SOAR in the North West

SOAR
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing SOAR in the North West over the 6 months to 26 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for SOAR in the North West

SOAR
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing SOAR within the North West region over the 6 months to 26 July 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester +18 8 £675 +12.50% 5
Cheshire - 2 £600 -
SOAR
England

SOAR
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (40.00%) SaaS
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Logic Apps
3 3 (30.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (20.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) DNS
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Military
3 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Retail
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
1 6 (60.00%) SOC Analyst
2 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Security Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Senior
3 1 (10.00%) SOC Specialist
3 1 (10.00%) Splunk Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 7 (70.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (40.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (20.00%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (20.00%) CSOC
4 1 (10.00%) FMCG
4 1 (10.00%) Insider Threat
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (70.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 7 (70.00%) Security Operations
3 6 (60.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 6 (60.00%) Incident Response
3 6 (60.00%) Threat Intelligence
4 5 (50.00%) SIEM
4 5 (50.00%) Threat Detection
4 5 (50.00%) Use Case
5 4 (40.00%) Analytics
5 4 (40.00%) Digital Forensics
6 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
7 2 (20.00%) Cost Management
7 2 (20.00%) Data Integration
7 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (20.00%) Security Architecture
7 2 (20.00%) Security Monitoring
8 1 (10.00%) Log Analytics
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 3 (30.00%) PowerShell
2 3 (30.00%) Python
3 1 (10.00%) Search Processing Language
3 1 (10.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (20.00%) GCIA
2 2 (20.00%) GCIH
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) LogRhythm